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SPIKE VS MAILSPRING

Mailspring tracks clicks. Spike drives decisions.

While Mailspring helps you manage your inbox with tracking features, Spike eliminates inbox management entirely through conversational design.

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Spike vs Mailspring at a glance

Feature Spike Mailspring #
Conversational email view Traditional inbox view
Team collaboration Individual-focusedworkflow
AI summaries
AI Feed
Works with existing email accounts All IMAP accounts
Cross-platform experience All IMAP accounts
Cross-platform experience Mac, Windows, iOS, Android
Privacy & simplicity Tracking heavy approach
Team-wide adoption Developer-focusedcomplexity

Why choose Spike over Mailspring

From task tracking to outcome driving

Mailspring focuses on tracking individual email tasks, but business success comes from team decisions, not email analytics. Spike's conversational design automatically creates the context your team needs to act decisively.

Team workflow over individual optimization

Mailspring optimizes how individuals manage their inbox with templates, snooze features, and tracking tools. Spike optimizes how teams collaborate by unifying email, chat, notes, and tasks in one flow.

Simplicity for all over complexity for few

Mailspring's open-source extensibility appeals to developers who want to customize their email experience. Spike delivers powerful collaboration out of the box that every team member can use immediately.

Unified intelligence over scattered data

Mailspring provides you with data about individual email interactions, while Spike offers something more valuable: complete team context around every decision.

Email that puts people first

Sonu Shetty

Team Leader

The app is extremely useful and productive, and it's user support is amazing! Hope it will keep improving with exclusive features that make it different from Gmail.

Carol Jacobson

My company started using Spike a year ago & the team feels like it’s vastly improved our productivity. It’s amazing to not have to switch back & forth between a million apps!

Max Shcherbakov

Co-Founder & CEO

“Spike improved workflow between our teams and clients since they had a collaborative workspace. The entire project history & needed files in one place.”

Jeromy Bailey

@JeromyABailey

I had something like 90K unread emails before switching to @SpikeNowHQ. I’m down to just 2K emails. Inbox 0, here I come!

Perry S.

Stay organized & productive with Spike 24/7/12/365
Spike centralized teams in my organization in one place where we manage tasks through trackable chats.

Adir Berman

Marketing Project Manager

Spike is an amazing team comms platform. Imagine Slack but inside your email, & with everyone you need - team members, clients and vendors too! Our team loves Spike!

Darren Olstad

Founder

“I have the whole firm using Spike for its chat interface and super fast features, and I even got some of my clients on it. They love how easy it is to communicate.”

SEGA L'éveilleur

@segalink

2022 was great for the team. Engagement was fluid because of @SpikeNowHQ & the sense of community got reinforced. We accomplished more & work became play. Boost your productivity in 2023 & try Spike!

Lauren Rheeder

LR

Love this app... Keeps me connected with clients, contractors and colleagues. Never missing an email. Keep up the great work.

FAQs

  • Yes! Your data is protected with AES-256 encryption, and we follow strict security protocols.

  • Spike includes templates and scheduling, but within a conversational context that keeps your team aligned. The bigger difference is that Spike’s design reduces the need for extensive email automation by making communication naturally efficient from the start.

  • \While Mailspring’s interface is open-source, its core sync engine is proprietary and requires a subscription, just like other professional software. Spike focuses on providing a secure, reliable, and maintenance-free experience without the complexity of a mixed-source model.